Fringed turkey berry, Dwarf turkey-berry
Canthium ciliatum

Family: Rubiaceae

What it is like

A shrub. It grows 3 m high. The branches are slender. The leaves are well spaced and in twos or threes. There are slender spines 1.5 cm long in the axils of some leaves. The leaf blade is oval but square at the base and narrowing to the tip. Leaves are 4 cm long by 2.5 cm wide. The flowers occur singly with a slender stalk 1.5 cm long. The flowers are bell shaped.

There are about 60-200 Canthium species.

Where it is found

It is a subtropical plant.

Countries/locations it is found in

Africa, Eswatini, South Africa, Southern Africa, Swaziland

How it is used for food

The fruit and seeds are eaten as a snack.

Edible parts

Fruit, seed

How it is grown

Its other names

Local names

Fluweelklipels, Hairy turkey-berry, Mulumekhoda, Mvutfwamini, Mvutwamira

Synonyms

Plectronia ciliata D. Dietr.; Psilostoma ciliata Klotzsch ex Eckl. & Zeyh.;